The Crime Readers' Association

Case Files 39

10th July 2019

Case Files issue 39 – out soon!

Case Files is an ezine that profiles new or forthcoming novels from members of the Crime Writers’ Association.
Subscribing is free – and it let’s you discover which contributors in the forthcoming issue are behind these weird facts and odd confessions!

  • Which CWA member, and contributor to this issue of Case Files, has a mild form of dyslexia and can never tell left from right, or east from west?
  • Which CWA member, and contributor to this issue of Case Files, has been helping build an aeroplane in her garage? (It is now in a hangar, awaiting its test flight!)
  • Which CWA member, and contributor to this issue of Case Files, first appeared in print back in 1995? (Though, he concedes, as an extra in a porn mag.)
  • Which CWA member, and contributor to this issue of Case Files, wrote a TV series called Cribb that Margaret Thatcher said was her favourite show?
  • Which CWA member, and contributor to this issue of Case Files, shares her birthday with HAL, the computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey?
  • Which CWA member, and contributor to this issue of Case Files, is the former Editor of the BBC’s The Archers?
  • Which CWA member, and contributor to this issue of Case Files, lived for much of her childhood in a Romany gypsy caravan and played the harp?
  • Which CWA member, and contributor to this issue of Case Files, is from a farming family and has helped with the birth of many calves and lambs?

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Chris Simms, Editor, Case Files.

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